@tfindelkind

Category Archives: AWS

After the legal notice (“Impressum“) which is more or less mandatory in Germany you should think about a backup of your WordPress installation. If you ever lost a self written document you may know how frustrating it can be to write the same text again.

1. Prepare QNAP for backup via FTP

I am using selfhost.de as a DynDns provider, which is needed because my Homeoffice Internet IP address may change from time to time. My Homeoffice router Netgear WNDR4000 is not able to update the selfhost DynDNS IP so I am using the QNAP TS-421 instead. You can choose any DynDNS provider which your router or Qnap supports.

Create a backup job for BackWPupAfter the plugin is installed there should be a new menu item on the left side. If you click it you should see the dashboard or you can just start to setup a backup job. In the next steps I create a backup job which should backup once a day at 22:00h the full WordPress installation.

I already mentioned that this blog is based on the AWS Free Tier. In in the upcoming blogs I would like to visualize the environment I am working with. MS Visio is not an option because I don´t want to buy it. I picked OpenOffice Draw instead because its free and it seem to be possible to import the AWS Simple Icons (SVG) format.

1. Install Apache OpenOffice Draw

I am using Windows 8.1 (Ubuntu will be installed tomorrow 🙂 so downloading and installing the executable did the job

2. Download the AWS Simple Icons

Download the AWS Simple Icons (SVG/EPS) and extract the zip files into a folder you like

I used “My Documents\AWS_Simple_Icons_svg_eps”

3. Import AWS Simple Icons into the Gallery/Theme

Open Draw

On the right side switch to “Gallery” (I use the German version so I guess the names)

Today I convinced myself to start a blog. In the past I often thought: “Just write down the few gotchas you encounter in your IT life”. Yep this is what I’ll do now.

Let’s start with the “AWS free Tier“. I read about that last October. A free tier means that for one year you are able to test the different services from AWS with no costs. Sounds good? Yes it is, but: There are limits and sometimes its hard for beginners to understand what means free and what could introduce costs.

So before you do anything setup a billing alert at >0 $ to get a message(email) as soon something introduce costs.

I don’t know what I will do in one year but in IT terms this will be in ages.